AOS interview documents question

[Little_Vixen 1,869]

We have my AOS interview after K1 this coming November 29 in Indianapolis. The letter I received had a lot of instructions and I'm unclear about some of them. I'm posting this in a separate thread cause I filed for AOS in August and not many of the Ausust thread have reached this point yet. 

 

- It says to bring government issued ID to enter the building. I am assuming my Dutch passport is sufficient? I don't have a drivers license yet and have no other forms of US identification.

 

- The letter specifically asks for: 'if you have children, bring birthcertificates for each of your children' and 'birthcertificates for all children of this marriage, and custody papers for your children and spouses children not living with you'. 

Me and my spouse dont have children together but he has four. Two of them underage living with us, the older two have moved out. There are no custody papers as their mother passed away. I'm not sure what they are asking for. Do I need to add their birthcertificates?

 

- It asks for police records. Do they mean mine or my spouses also? I have no police record and my spouses was disclosed at the k1 stage. Do we need to include those again?

 

- the letter asks for a certified English translation of each supporting document. My divorce decree is in Dutch and was translated by myself, included is the statement of correct translation. This was sufficient for all stages up until now. Do I need to get it translated by an official translator now?

 

- they ask for an affidavit of support and a medical form if not already submitted. The affidavit was submitted at filing the AOS, the medical form was handed to a custom agent at POE on August 21 this year. Am I correct that I dont need to bring either? (I'm planning to take my whole file folder with me that holds copies of the affidavit and every other document I submitted and received from them in any case.)

 

- It asks for any immigration related document ever issued to me, e.g. EAD and AP. I applied for EAD and AP but haven't received either yet and I doubt I will receive them before the interview. I will take my notification that I applied for both of them with me. Is there anything else I should do? (The k1 visa is printed in my passport which I will have on me)

[little immigrant 801]

46 minutes ago, Little_Vixen said:

We have my AOS interview after K1 this coming November 29 in Indianapolis. The letter I received had a lot of instructions and I'm unclear about some of them. I'm posting this in a separate thread cause I filed for AOS in August and not many of the Ausust thread have reached this point yet. 

 

- It says to bring government issued ID to enter the building. I am assuming my Dutch passport is sufficient? I don't have a drivers license yet and have no other forms of US identification. Yes

 

- The letter specifically asks for: 'if you have children, bring birthcertificates for each of your children' and 'birthcertificates for all children of this marriage, and custody papers for your children and spouses children not living with you'. 

Me and my spouse dont have children together but he has four. Two of them underage living with us, the older two have moved out. There are no custody papers as their mother passed away. I'm not sure what they are asking for. Do I need to add their birth certificates? Bring all the birth certificates 

 

- It asks for police records. Do they mean mine or my spouses also? I have no police record and my spouses was disclosed at the k1 stage. Do we need to include those again? I would bring them 

 

- the letter asks for a certified English translation of each supporting document. My divorce decree is in Dutch and was translated by myself, included is the statement of correct translation. This was sufficient for all stages up until now. Do I need to get it translated by an official translator now? Are you a certified translator? If not I would get one 

 

- they ask for an affidavit of support and a medical form if not already submitted. The affidavit was submitted at filing the AOS, the medical form was handed to a custom agent at POE on August 21 this year. Am I correct that I dont need to bring either? (I'm planning to take my whole file folder with me that holds copies of the affidavit and every other document I submitted and received from them in any case.) I'm not 100% sure on this one

 

- It asks for any immigration related document ever issued to me, e.g. EAD and AP. I applied for EAD and AP but haven't received either yet and I doubt I will receive them before the interview. I will take my notification that I applied for both of them with me. Is there anything else I should do? (The k1 visa is printed in my passport which I will have on me) You're good to go 👍

 

[AL-MJD 144]

Hey! I just went for my AoS interview yesterday at Omaha, NE.

 

1. Your passport is sufficient, but they do accept foreign identification documents such as my Singaporean Identity Card.

 

2. We have an adopted stepchild who lives with us, no children of our own. I brought her birth certificate and her custody papers along because it changed between AoS submission(when the divorce decree submitted says we don't have her custody) and now(we have a temporary order), but neither were ever asked from us during the interview, yet my status on USCIS Case Status now reads "New Card is Being Produced". You can really just explain your situation when the interviewing officer asks, that's what my husband and I did. The interviewing officer asked if I am okay with this arrangement and if I even liked my husband's daughter. I told him I am getting there and I very much so prefer her staying with us that the demented ex-wife.

 

3. They are asking for yours, not the K1 petitioner's.

 

4. You're fine. Just declare that you are fluent is both languages. Don't take my word for it though, all my documents are in English, it is just what I understand from reading the instructions.

 

5. I submitted the AoS with the application. AoS was not asked of me during the interview. Medical is a whole other ball game. You will see some people saying that they were delayed because they didn't have medical even though the I-693 Instructions Page 7 of 12, Part 3, says that K1 holder applicants don't need to submit an I-693 if they filed AoS within 1 year of their overseas medical. What I did to prevent this was to bring the page and highlight the particular instruction, just in case it was asked of me. It was never asked of me. But do note that I, as was instructed at the same mentioned part, submitted the vaccination record DS-3025 with photocopies of my vaccination certificates, that was provided to me by the overseas medical clinic without my prompting. In addition, I submitted a written letter explaining why I wasn't submitting an I-693, I included the date of my overseas medical.

 

5. Same thing happened to me. I applied for AP and EAD, have not received either by the time of the interview so I just did completely nothing about that instruction. I didn't bring any notice or anything. Turned out fine for me.

 

I hope this helps. Good luck!

[AL-MJD 144]

By the way, just in case you would like to know where I get the formal language about foreign language translations from, it is I-485 Instructions Page 5 of 42, last paragraph, interpret it how you want. 

[DrEllaNJ 288]

hi fellow Dutchie, I'd be happy to certify your translation for you if you think that's necessary. I guess it'd just be a matter of changing your name to mine in the document, which I can then print, sign and mail to you. PM me if you'd like that and I'll reveal my real name to you